EMILIA POVI looked at Katarina, confused at her words. What was there to say about me so much so that a seer would summon me and Alpha Lucas to see her.“I don’t understand. What truth about me is there?” I questioned, not liking the way Lucas was staring at me with suspicion.“I guess that’s what the seer wants you to find out. Come with me,” she said, taking my hand in hers and walking forward so that Lucas walked behind us.There was silence, and I couldn’t help but feel Lucas’s eyes burning a hole in the back of my head. I wondered what it was that this seer, who was most likely not a true one, had in mind to tell us.I had been raised not to trust seers or wolves who delved into spiritual. Carlos used to tell me they were nothing short of witches and would take the side of witches if there was ever a need to fight against werewolves with them.As we walked towards the seer’s place deep into the woods of the pack, Katarina and Lucas stopped at the same time, causing me to stop an
EMILIA POV“We’re being attacked!” was the last thing I heard someone announce to the rogues who were still in the kitchen before all hell broke loose.Someone pushed me to the back, standing in front of me.“You’re already injured. You can’t fight right now,” she said to me as they clashed with the rogues.I couldn’t stand there and watch just because I had an injury. I ran into the kitchen to grab a sharp knife, getting back into the living room as the Omegas had all shifted and we’re pushing the rogues back so that they would all be outside the house.I found a rogue on top of one of the Omegas, snapping its teeth and trying to find something to bite. I took its distraction as an opportunity to lunge for it and stab it right in the neck.Blood squirted out of its neck, but it didn’t relent immediately. It thrashed around wildly, running for me and trying to attack me as well, but I used my feet to kick it back until it got weak enough that it fell to the ground with shallow breaths
EMILIA POV I almost laughed at what the seer had just said. I would have laughed if nobody was taking it as serious as they all were.“I’m… I don’t think I understand what you mean,” I voiced my confusion.How could I possibly be the cause of two rogue attacks in a pack that wasn’t even mine? I was an Omega, rejected by the Alpha, for the Moon Goddess’s sake.If they believed I had ties to rogues, they had to reinvestigate and see that I had always been under Carlos’s wings since I lost both of my parents, and he kept a strict eye on me that I barely had the time to even talk to my pack members back in Fangsbane, let alone a rogue.“I want you to know that I’m not accusing you of anything,” Gwen, the seer, made it clear. “That you had something to do with it doesn’t mean you planned it. I meant you have something about you that brought about the attacks or the plague that recently took the lives of some pack members.”“And what exactly is it that she has with her?” Lucas asked.“I’m
EMILIA POV“Gwen?!” I yelled, avoiding the broken glasses on the floor and bending beside her body, trying to hold her down so that she wouldn’t move and get injured from the broken glass on the floor.“What’s happening? What…” I looked around, heaving. I didn’t know what to do.She grabbed me by the arm, squeezing so tightly that I winced in pain. Her eyes were wide, and her throat gurgled as if she was trying to tell me something.I picked her up so that she would sit up, patting her on the back to try and get all the liquids in her throat to get out.“Should I go get help? If there’s something around here that can help, point at it!” I instructed her, but her eyes were already rolling back into her head, and her body was jerking even more aggressively.I settled for going to get help, so I pulled her body away from the broken glass on the floor and ran out of the house, heading for the pack to get Maya.By the time I got into the Omega quarters, I was heaving and gasping for air.“
EMILIA POV“No, wait. You can’t do this,” I protested against Lucas’s orders for the soldier to take me to the dungeon. “I didn’t do anything. It wasn’t me, I swear. I met her like that, you have to believe me.”“Lucas…” Katarina started, standing in front of me and the soldier so that he wouldn’t take me just yet. “You know she didn’t do it. You need to stop.”“Let them go, Katarina,” he only responded. “I’ll figure this out the way I want to.”“This is not the right place to start,” Katarina warned. “Having her put in the dungeon will only make everyone panic and start to wonder what’s going on. Please just—”“Step out of the way for them,” he commanded her, his tone devoid of warmth. She seemed to notice this as she followed his command with a sigh of defeat, turning to me.“Just hang in there, Emilia. I’ll come back for you, I promise, okay?”I didn’t want to rely on her words or even show that I had hopes of getting out of there, so I settled for not replying. I only stared at th
EMILIA POV“You’re in heat,” Marcel’s words played on loop in my head as I felt an electric jolt go through my entire body.“Oh, my goodness,” I grunted as my stomach tightened and exploded with something hot and oddly blissful, filling me with pleasure but making me want more, like I was being fed an addictive nectar of sorts.“You haven’t experienced it before, have you?” Marcel inquired.Before I could answer, a sweet scent wafted across my nostrils, causing me to crawl desperately on the bare ground towards the other side of the cell, leaving one wall separating me from Marcel.He smelled so good, and it would have made me ashamed to even think about him in that manner, but I couldn’t help it. He couldn’t possibly fault me for something I couldn’t control.“I can smell how close you are, Emilia,” he whispered huskily, and my heart dropped.A part of me felt like I was doing something abominable, stabbing Lucas in the back. The other part of me couldn’t care less. Lucas had rejecte
EMILIA POVI tried to stand up, but my body caved under the weakness of the heat that was still flowing through my body.The vampire sniffed the air almost comically, his grin widening even more as he grabbed a hold of the bars I was in.“You smell delectable,” he commented, but that was in no way meant to be a compliment, and I knew it. It was nothing short of a threat, and this vampire was indirectly telling me that if he eventually got his fangs on me, it would be bad.“Stay away from me,” I warned, crawling into a far corner of the cell.“You’re going into the darkness, Emilia,” he said, causing me to gasp in surprise as to how he knew my name.“How…how do you know my name? What do you want from me? What are you doing here?” I questioned.“Too many questions, only few answers,” the vampire laughed, roughly tugging at the bars of the cell to scare me, and he knew that it was working.“If you could just stop making a hell of a noise, blood sucker,” Marcel said, distracting the vampi
EMILIA POVI would have laughed if the situation had been different; if I had not been strapped to a chair by one of the most dangerous creatures I had come across.“You want me – a werewolf – to carry your child; the heir of a vampire?” I questioned, my face most likely holding the amusement I felt at his boldness.“Exactly.” He nodded, not seeming to see a problem with it even though I had just laid it out in front of him so bluntly.“I don’t think you understand this, Daemon.” I shook my head, attempting to get it into his head once more. “I am a werewolf, and you are a vampire. We both should not be seeing eye to eye, even, and you’re talking about having a child with me?”“Now, I didn’t say anything about having a child with you directly, Emilia. Try to keep up,” he told me, walking to the other side of this sick laboratory and picking up a huge syringe that made my heart plop to my stomach in terror.“What are you… what are you doing?” I stuttered, watching him stick the needle